2 Kings 4:43
And his servant said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? But he said, Give the people, that they may eat; for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
44So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.
Cross References
Numbers 11:23And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD’S hand waxed short? now shalt thou see whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
Matthew 14:20And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up that which remained over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full.
Matthew 15:37And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up that which remained over of the broken pieces, seven baskets full.
Mark 6:37But he answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?
Mark 8:4And his disciples answered him, Whence shall one be able to fill these men with bread here in a desert place?
Luke 9:13But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more than five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy food for all this people.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 4:39-44
The Miracle on the Poisoned Pottage; the Miracle on the Barley Loaves. ( b. c. 887.) 38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. 39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not. 40 So they… Read the whole commentary →